Brad Gerlach’s Championship Highlights
Wow! what a great weekend for High School competitive surfing at the Red Bull Riders Cup. We witnessed some of the most intense games of the year.
Here are some of my highlights:
Newport versus Satellite High with Chase Wilson looking like a WCT pro and getting the first 10 point ride in NSL High School surfing history!! With judges Damien Hobgood, Micah Byrne, Jason Bennett, and Head Judge Willy Smith, that is legit!!
Swell For The Champs!
On behalf of the staff at NSL, we are so stoked that there will be swell on tap at Upper Trestles all weekend!!! We got great waves at Church last year, and saw the highest scoring game in NSL High School surfing history in the final last year between, Carlsbad High and San Clemente High [...]
Re-Match!
Golden State Championship Game day! Malibu High vs. Carpenteria High, A rematch of last year’s nail biter.
Insane Game
Everyone was here today. Tom Curren, Timmy Curran, Nathaniel Curran, Adam Virs, Sean Hayes, Matt and Mike McCabe, Pascal Stansfield and NSL Staff: Shaun Burrell, Zach Keenan, Jeremy Sherwin, Justin Swartz, Micah Byrne, Jesse Evans, Dave Shauber.
Golden State is on
Second stop of the Red Bull Riders Cup in Ventura at C St. promises to be exciting, as we will see a few return players and the Number 3 team in the nation, Carpenteria, defend their Golden State Title. Carpenteria High’s Team is lead by Conner Coffin and Kokoro Tamatsuri. They are up against newcomers [...]
Tommy’s In!
So Tommy called me back and said yes, he’ll come down and judge! So stoked on that! Everyone loves and respects Tom. He is one of surfing’s all time greats, so many people including myself have been influenced by his surfing genius. It’s an honor to have him judge the Red Bull Riders Cup and [...]
Off to Ventura
I called Tom Curren to judge as I figured there is nobody more qualified than him. Left him a message. He judged the 3 Golden State Regional Games held in Ventura last year and knows The Game format well. He was on the Ventura Pelicanos in ’04 and ’05, won a gold medal at the [...]
GAME ON!
It was exciting to be there! We have had great success with The Games in Santa Cruz and the surfers take it very seriously. A pretty interesting dynamic, but it’s not fun unless it’s serious.